To provide frail older people with support in activities of daily living that help them maintain appropriate standards of hygiene and grooming including time limited services to support wellness and reablement goals.Personal care provides assistance with activities of daily living self-care tasks in order to help a client maintain appropriate standards of hygiene and grooming, including:
• assistance with self-care
• assistance with client self-administration of medicine.
Activities can include support with:
• eating
• bathing
• toileting
• dressing
• grooming
• getting in and out of bed
• moving about the house
• assistance with client self-administration of medicine (including from dose-administration aids and reporting of failure to take medicines).